Roon

Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $15M Series A to provide a compassionate, reliable health guide for everyone. This round is co-led by Rick Heitzmann from FirstMark and Eurie Kim from Forerunner, with continued support from early investors, including Soraya Darabi from TMV and Jess Lee from Sequoia Capital More than any name or number, I’m so proud of this milestone because we’re building with a team of truly mission-driven people My personal experience as a caregiver to my father during his battle with ALS inspired me to build Roon. Navigating the complexities of the healthcare system opened my eyes: At some point, we’ll all face the challenge of caring for ourselves or a loved one through difficult health issues. And I knew there had to be a better way than turning to "Doctor Google."My co-founders Rohan Ramakrishna, MD, and Arun Ranganathan shared this vision as doctors and caregivers. Many of our investors have a meaningful personal connection to our mission. And most inspiringly, thousands of leading physicians in the country have joined us, eager to make their expertise more accessible and fix how the Internet often falls short for health information. Their enthusiasm to scale their impact beyond their clinics at places like Weill Cornell, UCSF, Harvard, Stanford or Columbia has been deeply encouraging. Finally, thank you to our incredible team Joshua Lang, Fatima Alvi, Alice Chen, Naintara (Tara) Rajan, Mackenzie C., Chelsey Larson, RN, BSN, Patrick E Porché Jr, Kelvin De Los Angeles, Koonal Bharadwaj, Ben Powell, Enid Hwang This funding marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter. With it, we’ll expand our platform to cover hundreds of conditions, including critical areas like women’s health, cancer, neurology, metabolic health, and pediatrics. Roon is more than just a company – it’s a movement to reimagine how we care for ourselves and one another. If you’re passionate about creating a better future for health, we invite you to join us. We are actively hiring! Check out our jobs page here: https://lnkd.in/eMeAbKs3 If you're a doc and want to share your expertise, please drop us a note here: https://lnkd.in/eEKfmKZQ Featured in Techrunch today: https://lnkd.in/eyD8C3pu

Nice to see Roon on this list. Congratulations to this inspiring group working at the intersection of AI + Care!

At Roon, we know for the 13% of women and girls navigating PCOS, the journey can be difficult and lonely. We’ve heard from many patients that navigating complicated symptoms – like weight gain, acne, and hirsutism – can feel challenging while simultaneously experiencing doctor dismissal and insensitivity.  As two patient advocates told us: "I wish that I had known that many of the things that I'd experienced from my teenage years were not my fault." - Sasha Ottey, person living with PCOS and Founder of PCOS Challenge "What challenges did I face when getting my PCOS diagnosis? I would say finding a doctor to actually listen to me." - Kendra Womack, person living with PCOS Our mission at Roon is to ensure everyone has a trusted guide for health, so today, we’re excited to announce the release of our PCOS product. We hope this free resource will make navigating PCOS less hard. Roon PCOS features:  💡 1000+ answers to top PCOS questions, covering topics ranging from the basics of PCOS and diagnosis, to understanding your symptoms and management options 🩺 40+ experts from fields representing the full gamut of PCOS care: Reproductive Endocrinology, Dermatology, Medical Endocrinology, Psychology, Nutrition and more 🗣️ Lived experience content from people like Internet Personality Mik Zazon, Non-profit Leader Sasha Ottey, and more. Check it out and let us know what you think! And stay tuned for several more exciting launches in the coming months.

Our mission at Roon is to ensure everyone has a trusted guide for health. It should be no surprise, then, that our latest launch is focused on helping the 10% of women and girls suffering from endometriosis. Globally, 190 million individuals are impacted by endometriosis. Patients have told us that they often live with endometriosis for years – with debilitating symptoms that include severe pain, heavy menstrual bleeding, and infertility – before they’re able to find the right medical professional to diagnose them and begin to help them navigate the disease. As one Patient Advocate told us, "I first had symptoms of endometriosis when I was 16, yet I didn't hear the word until 13 years later when I was 29 years old…I would communicate my symptoms to my pediatrician, who told me things like that I was exaggerating or it was part of being a woman or I was just trying to get attention." Her story is all too familiar for millions of people. At Roon, we want to make navigating endometriosis less hard. Starting today, you can go to roon.com and check out our guide to Endometriosis. Roon Endometriosis is a completely free, comprehensive resource featuring: 💡 Over 1000 answers to top endometriosis questions covering topics ranging from the basics of endo and getting diagnosed to understanding your symptoms and treatment 🩺 40+ experts from fields representing the full gamut of Endo care: Gynecologic Surgery, Pelvic Floor PT, Reproductive Endocrinology, Psychology and more And, our Instant Answer feature allows you to get an immediate answer to any question you have about endometriosis, powered exclusively by Roon experts. Thank you, as always, to our contributing experts: Dr. Serena H Chen MD (she, her), Dr. Jon Einarsson, Dr. Andrea Vidali, MD, Dr. Antonio Gargiulo, Shannon Cohn, Dr. Jessica Opoku-Anane, Dr. Deborah Ikhena-Abel, MD, MSCI, Lauren K., Dr. Randi Goldman, MD, MBA, FACOG, Dr. Angela K. Lawson, Ph.D., Gigi Robinson, M.S., BFA, Sadie Minkoff, Caroline Geoghegan, Casey Berna, LCSWA, Dr. Amanda Adeleye, MD, Mik Zazon, Dr. Hugh Taylor, Dr. Dana McQueen, MD and many more.

Roon is thrilled to partner with Olympic Gold Medalist Tara Lipinski on Roon Fertility. After her own experience with infertility, she teamed up with Roon to make sure other individuals on the fertility journey have trusted answers to all of their questions. "Lipinski says Roon, a platform that contains expert answers to thousands of questions for those navigating fertility with short-form videos, is a resource she wishes was available to her during her own struggle...'It’s just a place that you can go so there's no more rabbit holes and searching on Google, and that's where I was for years.'" Check out the Exclusive in People here: https://lnkd.in/erJWgmgQ

Roon gives people around the world a chance to hear directly from world class doctors who would otherwise be hard to get an appointment with. Today they’re launching in the fertility space, adding tons of expertise from health experts like Brian A. Levine, MD, MS, FACOG of top fertility clinic CCRM. And it’s all done in easy-to-understand, bite-size, Q&A style videos, like TikTok from doctors. Kudos to Roon founders Vikram Bhaskaran, Arun Ranganathan, and Rohan Ramakrishna, MD.

Announcing...Roon Fertility!

When Reid Hoffman and his team invited us to the “Masters of Scale” podcast, we were thrilled and honored. Often referred to as the 'Philosopher-Entrepreneur,' he provides a refreshing contrast to the focus on technology for its own sake. Reid has been interested in the possibility that one day everyone could have a useful and empathetic medical assistant in their pockets. In this episode Arun Ranganathan and I workshop (we show up around minute 4) some of the key questions we're tackling such as trust, access, scaling medical time & expertise and placing the right guardrails around AI in medicine. The discussion highlighted a tension between AI's emerging role in healthcare and traditional trust-building methods. Reid sees AI as a promising tool for physicians, potentially serving as real-time scientific peer review or aiding in patient triage. However, he emphasizes that accelerating trust in AI must be anchored in time-honored, often offline elements that people continue to hold in high regard (doctor credentials, real academic medical training and affiliation with trusted institutions). This is a sentiment also shared by my co-founder Rohan Ramakrishna, MD At Pinterest, we built a graph of people's offline interests by letting real people create collections of things they loved and we used computer vision technology and AI to scale human curation. At Roon we are also starting with a similar premise but with an eye on medical curation  – real trusted doctors answering questions at the core and AI to scale doctor access and time. While building a new network from the ground up is challenging, we look to Pinterest and LinkedIn (which Reid built) as north stars. They demonstrated the gaps in traditional social media and the potential for new, purpose-built platforms. For healthcare, we need a clean slate to prioritize curation and trust from the outset. Here is a link to the video: https://lnkd.in/e_V3yYdt

🤖 AI has revolutionized how we work, create, and interact with each other in digital spaces. But we all know that AI can do so much more. Join Reid Hoffman and special guest, Aza Raskin — Co-founder and President, Earth Species Project & Co-founder, Center for Humane Technology — for our new Strategy Session series: AI Leading Change. ➡ https://hubs.la/Q02wtd_X0 During this free, virtual live event, early-stage entrepreneurs will join Reid to discuss AI's transformative impact and their role in embracing and shaping this shift. You'll learn specific examples about how AI can support your business journey and walk away with new insights on: 1️⃣ AI's transformative impact 2️⃣ How to integrate this new technology into your business in a way that aligns with your mission Register to join us on Monday, May 13th at 3:30 pm PT / 6:30 pm ET: https://hubs.la/Q02wtd_X0 Featuring: Reid Hoffman, Host of Masters of Scale Aza Raskin, Co-founder and President of Earth Species Project & Co-founder of Center for Humane Technology Jodine Dorce, VP, Live Events of WaitWhat Vikram Bhaskaran, Co-founder & CEO of Roon Arun Ranganathan, Co-founder & CTO of Roon Tyrell J., Co-Founder and COO of Tiami Networks Anthony Bennett, MPA, Co-owner and CEO of Soleplay Masters of Scale Strategy Sessions are presented in alliance with Capital One Business. #ai #artificialintelligence #aiforbusiness #artificialintelligenceforbusiness #aisafety #responsibleai #responsibletech